Maxwell Graham Hebditch (born 22 August 1937) was
Director of the
Museum of London
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in London, England.
He was born on 22 August 1937 in the Yeovil area, the son of Harold and Lily (née Bartle) Hebditch.
He was appointed the first Field Archaeologist of Leicester Museum service from 1961 to 1965, when he was made Assistant Curator of Archaeology at Bristol Museum, becoming their Curator of Agriculture and Social History in 1969.
In 1970 he moved to London to become Director of the
Guildhall Museum and from 1977 to 1997 was director of the new Museum of London. He was also president of the UK
Museums Association
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History
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; and from 1977 to 1979 president of the
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society.
In 2000, after retiring from the Museum of London, he became honorary curator at the
Philpot Museum in
Lyme Regis
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,
Dorset
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and was Chair of the Taunton Cultural Consortium. He now lives in
Dorchester.
Selected works
* 1958 ''Towards the future of London's past''.
* 1968 ''Excavations on the medieval defences, Portwall Lane, Bristol, 1965''
* 1973 ''The Forum and Basilica of Roman Leicester''
References
1937 births
Living people
English architectural historians
Directors of the Museum of London
English curators
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
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